I bought an Evo a while ago after my final Pre gave its last breath. Its a good phone but never will compare to WebOS. But 4G really isn't all what its psyched up to be. Ya its cool and it is lightning fast but it does drane the battery. It is cool having it and being able to use it but it just should be drawn like a gun by the carriers. I will guarantee that 68% of the people who voted "yes" on the poll were those who haven't OWNed a 4G device. Yes they may have played with it in the shop but they haven't gone around the block with it. If I had the decision of having 4G or the device being .5mm thinner... I would choose thinner.
Don't get me wrong, I love 4G but the best use for 4G is marketing, not use. The fact that users would be complaining that they have 5 hours of battery because they have it turned on all the time (when they get 28 hours without) will not be worth it.

No, not really. I get 3-8 usually but every other time I may get a spike at 10. I think my best I've every got was 11.something. It was early in the morning and I had FULL signal.
EDIT: But I do tend to get higher on the side of 3-8. Average of probably like 6.

I bought an Evo a while ago after my final Pre gave its last breath. Its a good phone but never will compare to WebOS. But 4G really isn't all what its psyched up to be. Ya its cool and it is lightning fast but it does drane the battery. It is cool having it and being able to use it but it just should be drawn like a gun by the carriers. I will guarantee that 68% of the people who voted "yes" on the poll were those who haven't OWNed a 4G device. Yes they may have played with it in the shop but they haven't gone around the block with it. If I had the decision of having 4G or the device being .5mm thinner... I would choose thinner.
Don't get me wrong, I love 4G but the best use for 4G is marketing, not use. The fact that users would be complaining that they have 5 hours of battery because they have it turned on all the time (when they get 28 hours without) will not be worth it.

I saw a friend last week and he was showing off his EVO (and we have 4G coverage in our area). I asked him "how's the battery life?"

He told me that he carries not one, not two, but three extra batteries. Three. 3. III.

I just went through this with Sprint. Their new pricing structure requires $10 for any smart-phone. Since that is their focus with EVO and all their flagship phones, it would seem that any phone like Pre 3 should have 4G. That is their push for the future and the speed would also make sense for HP. I would think that any TouchPad that Sprint wants to sell would also need 4G. HP would want the cutting edge technology to make it attractive and from a Marketing apect as well.

With Sprint flip flopping on Wimax, I wouldn't buy a phone for 4g specifically. They say now that if they switched to lte that it's a software upgrade, but that mantra could change in a second. It's too much of a gamble for me to plunk down money then loose functionality.

How long would it take sprint to go back to the manufactorers and have them build an update, test is then release it? 6mo to a year at best.

I'd rather have a 4G tablet. Not sure if I care so much about streaming movies or downloading huge files on my phone. Besides...chances are if I want to do anything requiring that speed, I'll probably be in a wifi hotspot (or at home) where I can just work off a router instead of a tower.

I was pretty sure Sprint WiMax was capped at 10Mbps, theoretical. The average download reviews I've seen peak the download in the 5Mbps with most downloads in the 3Mbps range so I wonder about performance substantially beyond that and whether or not it's an accurate sample size (large enough file)

Most HSPA+ phones are capped at 14.4Mbps maximum, but that's way more than enough for a mobile user, and even most broadband users as you can pretty much stream 720p at 14.4, if you could really hit it.

From what I'm reading WiMax is absolutely brutal on batteries, but I wonder if that has more do with the network design and frequencies? I have to wonder if HSPA+ and LTE are a lot more efficient in regard to power usage.